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September 21, 2011, 08:02:00 PM
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Do you really want an exchange that is strong enough to fix a price to Bitcoins? Think about it for a while. How would it even be possible? What happens when another exchange allows Bitcoins to be traded for a different price? What happens when I decide to trade Bitcoins for a different price? I think the creator of Bitcoin was going for decentralization for a reason.
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Brad Willman, SSCP, LTCP, MCTS,SCE,BCE
September 21, 2011, 07:42:52 PM
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How would a code change fix the price??


Magic

I was speaking about exchanges etc. thanks for your useful post though
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Brad Willman, SSCP, LTCP, MCTS,SCE,BCE
September 21, 2011, 06:58:18 PM
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price fixing doesn't work.

unless you punish people (jail time, death penalty?) for trading at a different price, there will always be market pressure to do so.


ty
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September 21, 2011, 06:49:44 PM
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It's been a while since I coded anything, let me take a whack

Code:
10 Print HELLO
20 Print How much are Bitcoins?
30 Input 8-8
40 Print Bitcoins are $Input

It may need a few tweaks.


It's hard to answer your question though (as what would happen) because I'm not even sure -how- that would happen, which would alter things, on top of getting enough clients to switch over to the fiat-pinned version.
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September 21, 2011, 06:43:30 PM
#4
price fixing doesn't work.

unless you punish people (jail time, death penalty?) for trading at a different price, there will always be market pressure to do so.
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September 21, 2011, 06:37:24 PM
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How would a code change fix the price??
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Brad Willman, SSCP, LTCP, MCTS,SCE,BCE
September 21, 2011, 06:28:11 PM
#1
What do you think would happen to bitcoin say a year from now if it was more widely adopted and being used as say a paypal alternative but bitcoins were at a fixed price? Lets just say $8.00/btc

thoughts?
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